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From: Stefan Parvu <sparvu@cc.hut.fi>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: softupdates questions
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Thank you all guys. I've got the picture.
stefan

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:42:10 -0500
> From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
> Cc: Stefan Parvu <sparvu@cc.hut.fi>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: softupdates questions
> 
> * Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [010621 05:34] wrote:
> > Stefan Parvu <sparvu@cc.hut.fi> writes:
> > 
> > > 3. There is some concern about to integrate dirpref to FreeBSD . Why is
> > > this ? Are any specific changes to fsck or other tools regarding dirpref ?
> > 
> > It was integrated in early April.  I can't remember there being any
> > controversy over it.
> 
> old fsck + new dirpref == spammed superblock, meaning that some fields
> required by the new dirpref would be zero'd after fsck, this would
> cause a divide by zero fault in the kernel.
> 
> there was a patch added to recognize spammed dirpref values and
> reinit them, so this is no longer a problem.
> 
> -Alfred
> 


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